I'm a primary school teacher with a passion for education, creativity and technology. I have 15 years experience teaching reception to year 5. In addition to developing interactive teaching resources, I also create and sell educational clip art.
I'm a primary school teacher with a passion for education, creativity and technology. I have 15 years experience teaching reception to year 5. In addition to developing interactive teaching resources, I also create and sell educational clip art.
Nouns or Verbs PowerPoint Sorting Game. Do your students need extra practice with the identification of nouns and verbs? This game is perfect to review nouns and verbs!
DIRECTIONS:
This PowerPoint must be in Slide Show view or the animation won’t work.
STUDENTS:
Read the word on the hot air balloon.
Is it a noun or a verb? Click on the correct button to
answer.
If you are incorrect, click BACK and try again.
If you are correct, click NEXT and go to the next slide.
TIP:
Use individual whiteboards to promote whole-class participation.
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)
Brag Tags (character education).
Brags tags are prefect for motivating students to improve their behavior. Here are 35 brag tags to reward good character behavior!
Included:
35 brag tags (in full color)
35 brag tags (in black and white)
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach).
Complete and Incomplete Sentences - PowerPoint and worksheets -
Complete and incomplete sentences are easy to teach when you use this no-prep interactive PowerPoint and printables set. The animated slides and sound effects are sure to engage and stimulate your students!
The six printables are perfect for centers or to send home for further review. One of the printables is an iPad craftivity, where students write and illustrate a complete sentence. This will make a gorgeous display.
Contents:
Complete and Incomplete Sentences PowerPoint (37 Slides)
Complete and Incomplete Sentences Worksheets (6)
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach).
Classroom jobs (editable) - Ink friendly!
Here are bold black and white classroom job labels for your students. Edit, print and laminate for durability.
You can print these classroom jobs on white or colored paper to match your classroom colors. Stick them on the wall or use them as a clipping job chart.
Labels:
Paper passer
Pencil specialist
Weather expert
Door manager
Classroom gardener
Classroom vet
Classroom banker
Line leader
Classroom librarian
IT manager
Lunch assistant
Calender assistant
Bathroom monitor
Furniture assistant
Art assistant
Board specialist
Time keeper
Chart assistant
Whiteboard manager (little whiteboards)
Light technician
Recycling specialist
Classroom messenger
Dirt specialist
Desk inspector
Score keeper
Absentee assistant
Lost & found expert
Play dough expert
I also included an editable PPT file where you can type in your own classroom jobs.
Included in this zip file:
PDF with classroom jobs (28 jobs)
PPT file with editable classroom job labels
Perfect for back to school - just print and cut!
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach).
Fact or Opinion (PowerPoint and worksheets) - This is a highly visual, interactive and fun introduction to fact or opinion! Students often struggle to distinguish between fact or opinion. This PowerPoint introduces and explains fact or opinion with 52 farm themed slides. Students work through the interactive slides to practice identifying facts and opinions. It's easy to use, you just click and teach!
Also included are four worksheets (including a flip flap book) to further reinforce and consolidate fact or opinion. The worksheets are perfect for literacy centers or to send home for extra review.
This product is linked to CCSS (W.1.1; W.1.2; W.2.1; W.2.2). Students have to understand fact and opinion before they can write opinion pieces or informative texts.
Included:
55 Fact or opinion PowerPoint slides
4 Fact or opinion worksheets (including a flip flap booklet)
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)
Calendar Classroom Decor (Retro) - You are going to adore this bright and bold retro style calendar decor!
Contents:
Today / Tomorrow / Yesterday
Days of the week
Months of the year
Weather chart (including temperature clip card)
Seasons
Calendar numbers 1 - 31
Calendar numbers 1 - 31 (even numbers in orange)
Tally the date (laminate and use whiteboard marker)
100 days smarter (laminate and use whiteboard marker)
Countdown poster (laminate and use whiteboard marker)
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teacch)
Helping Verbs Powerpoint and Printables. Community helpers are here to help your students understand helping verbs! Students learn about helping verbs through fun visuals and exercises. This PowerPoint introduces helping verbs and help students identify helping verbs in sentences. Students are encouraged to stay on task by using their whiteboards during the lesson. This is a great PowerPoint for the review and introduction of helping verbs (auxiliary verbs). Also included are five printables to further reinforce and consolidate helping verbs.
Included:
44 PowerPoint Slides
5 Printables / worksheets (answer keys included)
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach).
Subject and Predicate QR Code Task Cards - Here are 36 task cards with which to practice identifying subject and predicate. Scan the QR code on each card to receive instant feedback. Task cards are great and, even more, fun when combined with QR codes! Use the task cards for scoot, scavenger hunt, read and write the room, individual practice, pair work or project the task cards for whole class teaching.
QR codes are fun and easy to use. Download a QR code reader onto your iPad, tablet or smartphone and you are ready for some serious classroom fun. Students can write their answers on their answer sheets and immediately check their work by scanning the QR code on the task card.
You could even use these task cards without using the QR codes. Students simply use the answer key to check answers.
Included:
36 Color QR code subject and predicate task cards
36 Black and white QR code subject and predicate task cards
Subject mini anchor chart / poster
Predicate mini anchor chart / poster
Student answer sheet
Answer key
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach).
Irregular Verbs QR Codes & Task Cards - Help the cool kids change the irregular present tense verbs to the past tense. Scan the QR codes to check your answers. You will receive 32 task cards. There is a full color and a black and white set. Also included is a student answer sheet and an answer key. All cards contain QR code answers.
Common Core Aligned: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1d
Task cards are great and even more fun when combined with QR codes! Use the task cards for scoot, scavenger hunt, read and write the room, individual practice, pair work or project the task cards for whole class teaching. QR codes are fun and easy to use. Download a QR code reader onto your iPad, tablet or smart phone and you are ready for some serious classroom fun. You could even use these task cards without using the QR codes. Students simply use the answer key to check answers.
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)
Articles - PowerPoint and worksheets -
Articles are easy to teach when you use this no-prep interactive PowerPoint and worksheet set. Your students will love the bright colors, sound and animation!
Contents:
- Articles PowerPoint (59 Slides)
- Articles Printabes (6)
The six printables are perfect for literacy centers or to send home for extra review.
CCSS ELA LITERACY L.1.1.H
Use determiners (e.g., articles).
Created by Lindy du Plessis (stsore: Lindy loves to teach) .
Collective Nouns (PowerPoint & Worksheets) -
Collective nouns are easy to teach when you use this interactive and entertaining PowerPoint! It introduces collective nouns (40 slides/examples) to students. This is a great PowerPoint for the review or introduction of collective nouns. It also includes a 10 slide collective nouns quiz and 3 worksheets and a flip flap booklet!
Students are encouraged to use their whiteboards throughout the PowerPoint
Common Core Aligned: L.2.1a
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach).
Nouns (Proper nouns and Common nouns) Task Cards & QR Codes - Identify a proper noun or a common noun in every sentence and use the QR code to scan the answer.
You will receive 32 task cards that ask students to identify a common or a proper noun in every sentence.
Contents:
32 Full color cards
32 Black and white cards
2 Mini Anchor charts
1 Student answer sheet
1 Answer key
Common Core Aligned: ELA - 3.L.1.a
Task cards are great and even more fun when combined with QR codes! Use the task cards for scoot, scavenger hunt, read and write the room, individual practice, pair work or project the task cards for whole class teaching.
QR codes are fun and easy to use. Download a QR code reader onto your iPad, tablet or smart phone and you are ready for some serious classroom fun. Students can identify common or proper nouns, write their answers on their answer sheets and immediately check their work by scanning the QR code on the task card.
You could even use these task cards without using the QR codes. Students simply use the answer key to check answers.
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach).
Place Value Task Cards and Clip It! (three digit numbers). What is the value of the underlined digit?
Contents:
36 Clip It Task Cards (version one)
36 Regular Task Cards (version two)
Student answer sheet
Answer key
These are task cards with a twist! Every task card has a number with a digit that is underlined. Students have to identify the value of the underlined digit by clipping a clothespin to the correct answer.
You may place a small dots on the other side of the card to indicate the correct answers, that way the cards are self checking.
There is also another set (version two) for differentiation. This set has no answers to choose from. Students have to write the correct answers on their answer sheets.
For extra variation you can use the cards without the clothespins. Students can write their answers on the answer sheet that's provided with this product.
You can use these task cards for read and write the room, scoot or you can project them on your whiteboard for whole class work.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.NBT.A.1.A
By Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach).
Key words: place value / number concept development / three digit numbers / place-value
Prepositions (QR Codes - Clip and Scan - Task Cards) - Do your students love task cards? Here are preposition task cards with a twist! Pick a task card. Complete the sentence by choosing a suitable preposition. Use a clothespin to clip the correct preposition. Use an iPad, iPod, tablet or smartphone and scan the QR code to check the answer. Alternatively, you can place a small dot on the other side of the card to indicate the correct answer. For further variation, you can use the cards without the clothespins or QR codes. Students have to write their answers on the answer sheet that is provided with this product. You can use these cards for read and write the room, scoot or you can even project them on your whiteboard for whole class work.
Included:
32 Color Preposition QR Code Task Cards
32 Black and White Preposition QR Code Task Cards
1 Student Answer Sheet
1 Answer Key
1 Mini Preposition Anchor Chart
Common Core Aligned: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.1.i
By Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach).
Commas in a series (PowerPoint and Worksheets) - Commas are easy to teach when you use this no-prep PowerPoint! This is a highly visual, interactive and fun PowerPoint explaining the use of the Oxford comma. Students learn to write sentences using commas correctly. This is a great PowerPoint for the review and introduction of the Oxford comma.
Included:
30 PowerPoint Slides
3 Worksheets & 3 answer keys
Created by Lindy du Plessis 2016. This is a single user license only. Please do not share or place on the internet.
Alphabetical Order (PowerPoint and Worksheets)
Alphabetical order is easy to teach when you use this no-prep PowerPoint. This is a highly visual, interactive and fun introduction to alphabetical order. Students discover and practice alphabetical order through fun games and exercises. This PowerPoint (94 slides) introduces alphabetical order to students and helps them place words in the correct alphabetical order (first letters, then CVC words, then CCVC words and finally, words of mixed length). Students also learn how to place words that start with the same letters in alphabetical order. Internet links are provided for alphabetical games and songs. This PowerPoint is perfect for the different stages of alphabetical order and can easily be used for more than one lesson.
Also included are three worksheets (differentiated) to further reinforce and consolidate alphabetical order.
CCSS: L.2.2e, L.3.2g
Included:
94 PowerPoint Slides
3 Worksheets (answer keys included)
Please note that you need to unzip this bundle in order for it to work.
Sight Words Dolch Clip it Cards (Second Grade List) - Sight word mastery is one of the keys to fluent reading. This set of 46 clip it task cards make memorizing sight words fun!
Every task card has a sight word (from the Dolch Second Grade List) on it. Students have to read the main sight word and clip the matching sight word at the bottom of the card. Place a small dot on the other side of the card to indicate the correct answer, that way the cards are self-checking. For extra variation, you can use the cards without the clothespins. Students can use whiteboard markers and circle the matching words. Students can also try to read and clip the words while being timed.
Also included are 46 Dolch sight word flash cards.
Included:
46 Dolch sight words color clip it task cards
46 Dolch sight words black and white clip it task cards
46 Dolch sight words color flash cards
46 Dolch sight words black and white flash cards
Sight words clip it task cards are also great for students that struggle with visual discrimination and fine motor coordination.
By Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach).
Multiplication tables (flash cards) - Print on colored paper, add to any board game and you are ready to go!
Included:
Flash cards (x1 to x12)
Multiplication Reference Sheets (x1 to x12)
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)
Sight Words Dolch Clip it Cards (Pre-Primer List) - Sight word mastery is one of the keys to fluent reading. This set of 40 clip it task cards make memorizing sight words fun! Every task card has a sight word (from the Pre-Primer Dolch list) on it. Students have to read the main sight word and clip the matching sight word at the bottom of the card. Place a small dot on the other side of the card to indicate the correct answer, that way the cards are self-checking. For extra variation, you can use the cards without the clothespins. Students can use whiteboard markers and circle the matching words. Students can also try to read and clip the phrase while being timed.
Also included are 40 Dolch sight word flash cards.
Included:
40 Dolch sight words color clip it task cards
40 Dolch sight words black and white clip it task cards
40 Dolch sight words color flash cards
40 Dolch sight words black and white flash cards
Sight words clip it task cards are also great for students that struggle with visual discrimination and fine motor coordination.
By Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach).
Count to 120 and back PowerPoint (pirate theme) - The pirates are learning about numbers, help them count to 120 and back! This is a fantastic counting tool. You can click through it, or let the PowerPoint run automatically while your students count. This will give you valuable free time.
You will receive four versions of this counting PowerPoint:
Click version
One second timed version
Two second timed version
Three second timed version
Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach).